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[feliciter]

Singapore Dreaming may not be the mythical "definitive Singapore film" (whatever that means), not as easily classifiable as Jack Neo's oeuvre nor as potentially internationally-marketable as some other Singaporean directors' work, but it has a sincerity and familiarity which has been notably missing from recent local offerings.

Its leitmotif is

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[ambientlight]

took the songs, thank you! so fma is considered steampunk? o_o

( the techno remix-y thing! ahahaha *dead*. )

[feliciter]

According to a short column by Stephanie Tan in Friday's (or perhape it was Saturday's) Life!section on anti-heroes (Roy Mustang being one), FMA is a "steampunk anime".
*Very* loose use of the term nowadays, it seems >_>

(I know! Almost fell off my chair with glee when the pulsating thump-beats started XD.
I've heard this song before sporadically, but never knew the lyrics -though apparently Hokkien was all I could speak and understand until the age of almost three.)

Have you or are you planning to watch Singapore Dreaming?

[ambientlight]

-is- fma supposed to take place in some alternate version of earth? >_. ( also, am not sure roy would be the best example of an antihero, but then again i remember little from fma. )

( wow. i am hopeless at dialects, alas, being of the can-understand-cannot-speak type. )

am definitely planning to watch singapore dreaming -- just a matter of when. ^^; on the last day of prelims, perhaps.

[feliciter]

FMA is apparently supposed to be set in a mirror of our own world - for instance, Ed passes through the Gate into London (being bombed with zeppelins) and later into Munich (which has rockets). But either way neither Ed's world nor the one which more closely resembles ours is a perfect fit to historical events. Perhaps they could both be alternate timelines.

(the writer's justification was that he has a dark past and is amoral - which again is playing fast and loose with definitions. Steampunk would be a more accurate description of the FMA movie. her other examples were the Count of MC from Gankutsuou, Asakura Hao from Shaman King, and Kougaiji from Saiyuki Reload, but i can't comment since dunno about any of them.)

(i find dialects very useful for work, ordering food and epithets watching local movies and theatre :D)

am definitely planning to watch singapore dreaming

One of my top 5 movies of 2006 ^_^

Snakes on a Plane is, naturally, on both my top 10 and bottom 10 lists XD

[ambientlight]

ah, i see. i suppose you could consider it steampunk if alchemy is considered science. perhaps. ( i find strictly-steampunk universes - i.e. victorian AU - more interesting, though. :D )

( the count is an antihero if you take it as meaning 'kind-of-villainous protagonist', i suppose, and kougaiji is the ineffectual anti-hero ( though his actual personality is seems more the heroic sort, fighting nobly and all ). it's hard to tell what one means by anti-hero anymore, i suppose. )

( mm, i imagine they would be useful in your line of work, particularly with the older patients? and ahaha, yeah, subtitles just aren't the same. )

One of my top 5 movies of 2006
so what are the others? :D

i do not think i shall be seeing it! *is boring*

[feliciter]

(so do I, there are more points of reference - I suppose most of Jules Verne's work might be considered steampunk, in a way?)

(ah, thanks for the explanation. anti-hero is overused in the context of anime - if one were to look at naruto or shaman king...)

(mainly the older patients. even malay and indian patients somehow picked up hokkien from the kampungs! i watched broadway beng recently, for which a working knowledge of hokkien was recommended if not indispensable)

in no particular order of merit (and including movies released in 2005 but only released here this year):

Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Inside Man
Singapore Dreaming
V for Vendetta

Honourable mention - POTC:2; Good Night, and Good Luck; Lemming

It was unabashedly entertaining! And full of howlers.

[ambientlight]

( steampunk before its time, perhaps. :D )

( eheh, that's like how my father knows malay better than he does chinese - though admittedly he only studied the former in school. cool, though. and you certainly seem to go to the theatre a lot. o_o )

thanks for the list! have only seen the last on that, as well as good night, and good luck.

so i've heard! but i am boring and tend to watch movies for historical/foreign context rather than as a form of escapism. there's always anime for the latter, after all. :x

[feliciter]

(the pre-1965 generation are multilingual, or at least comfortable speaking English, Malay and dialects. Malay used to be compulsory for admission into the civil service, including teaching. I sort of regret not learning it formally, having picked it up by osmosis since starting work. Many medical terms are, by their nature, inappropriate for polite conversation XD

Er, actually I don't attend plays/musicals as a rule: the last show I watched before Cabaret and Broadway Beng was "Barefoot in the Park" - in 2002. For some reason, didn't find anything I really wanted to see in the intervening years. Unless one counts an avant-garde performance by one of my ex-JC-mates in 2004 XD.
Alas, I missed "Silence of the Kittens".)

historical/foreign context is interesting! I tend to get my fix of that from anime, as well ^_^

[feliciter]

Also "The Magic Fundoshi" and "Army Daze" earlier in the year. Hmm, I *do* seem to be going to shows quite frequently in 2006 - but as you can see, somehow they tend to escape my mind >_>

[ambientlight]

Malay used to be compulsory for admission into the civil service, including teaching.
! why did they not teach us interesting things like that in social studies? it makes sense, considering that it's our national language and all, but still.

picking languages up by osmosis can't be that bad, surely? at least you learn the useful bits of the language first.

i have yet to see a single musical, alas. someday i shall remedy this.

i daren't rely on anime for anything other than entertainment, i'm afraid :D;;

[feliciter]

why did they not teach us interesting things like that in social studies?

Perhaps the powers-that-be thought that it might be a sensitive issue, or raise awkward questions. I didn't learn that in Social Studies either, and am too old for National Education, so am not sure if the syllabus has been modified?

at least you learn the useful bits of the language first

Body parts, excretory processes, and symptoms yes >_>

How about Forbidden City, in between prelims and actual "A"s? It does actually involve Asian history ~_^

ahaha, that's true *cough*RoseofVersailles*cough*

[ambientlight]

there is a lot left out of our national education lessons, yes. ( or national propaganda, as some of my teachers refer to it. ) not sure if the syllabus has changed much either -- i wonder if they still have it in primary school?

...well, useful for your career, at least. :D;;

but musicals are expensive and i am stingy! i am waiting for les mis to hit our shores again, sometime in the distant future. perhaps. wanted to catch RENT last year, but wasn't eighteen yet. -_-;;

i heard saint just was in that one! he is pretty good bishounen material, for a historical figure.

[feliciter]

I think they still do - there is a primary school near my workplace which puts up annual banners trumpeting the number of students with 3, 4 or 5 A* (though IIRC, social studies is not a core subject).

i am waiting for les mis to hit our shores again

So am I! I missed it the first time round here, and also managed to miss both the live and film versions of RENT >_>. Have you watched the others (Phantom, Miss Saigon, Cats?)

Axel Fersen was in it too. There appears to be a fair amount of anime set in pre-1789 France, possibly on account of the pretty XD

[ambientlight]

oh dear. that's somehow depressing.

i've not seen either live or film versions of any musicals besides the RENT movie, alas. someday, someday.

i'd never heard of axel fersen before this, oops. swedish, hmm? poor louis XVI. ...and ooh, really? wasn't aware of any besides rose of versailles and the recent chevalier.

[feliciter]

Forbidden City sounds interesting (life and times of Empress Cixi) - I missed it the first time round, though.
Plenty of time to catch musicals and plays after the "A"s! ^_^

Swedish diplomat, yup, extremely dishy and rumoured lover of Marie Antoinette, though there was no actual proof. He wrote of her in his letters in extremely romantic chevalierly terms.
There were at least 2 other series on TV in the 80s whose names I can't remember, but seems to have gone out of fashion in recent years.